Mike Dorning

Nearly every account of Ross Perot`s life mentions the rescue from an Iranian prison of two executives of his Electronic Data Systems Corp. What better example of someone who gets...

The voice on the line was unmistakable, its East Texas twang the remnant of a childhood spent in small-town Texarkana. Weeks earlier, the first unauthorized biography of Ross Perot had...

The Chicago Board of Trade announced it would reopen briefly Wednesday for the first time since crippling floods struck the Loop early Monday. The CBOT`s announcement late Tuesday capped a...

Congress wants to cut the middleman out of the student-loan business, but the idea is running up against opposition from the battered banking industry, loath to lose a profitable piece...

The Federal Reserve Tuesday sought to stimulate bank lending by reducing the level of reserves that financial institutions must hold against deposits. Bankers and economists said the move was a...

The government`s savings and loan bailout agency filed suit in federal court Wednesday to recover $51 million it alleges was lost through negligence and mismanagement by 13 former directors and...

Whether they are rich, poor or middle-class, black and Hispanic borrowers are far more likely to be turned down for home mortgages than whites with similar incomes, the Federal Reserve...

Michael J. Boskin is chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and President Bush`s top economist. More than a year after the recession began, and with prospects for a turnaround...

Bell Federal Savings & Loan Association is positioning itself to buy other thrifts and financial-services firms through creation of a publicly held holding company, according to documents filed with the...

Patricia Caputo began last week the same way she has nearly every week this year: rushing along with the morning commuter traffic at Union Station to her 5-foot-by-6-foot cubicle in...